Table of Contents:
  • Part One : The church and its setting
  • The foundation of the See of Canterbury
  • The urban setting : Anglo-saxon Canterbury
  • The pre-conquest cathedral
  • Part two : The rule of the Kentish kings (597-762)
  • The early archbishops and the See of Canterbury (c. 604-762)
  • The early community (597-762)
  • Part three : Mercian and west saxon overlordship (762-900)
  • Canterbury and Lichfield (762-803)
  • Archbishops, kings and the lordship of Canterbury in the ninth century
  • The community in the ninth century
  • The struggle for control of the Kentish 'Monastaries'
  • Part four : Christ church and the english monarchy (900-1066)
  • Sanctity and obscurity : The archbishops and the community in the tenth century
  • Reform and the pressures of secular society (989-1066)
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A : Notes on some problematic charters
  • Appendix B : The diplomatic of ninth-century charters.